Interview for a Korean audience: the unfinished collapse of the empire, history 'not from Kyiv' (03.08.2024)
An interview with Vitaliy Dribnytsya for a Korean audience — a survey conversation about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, history, the Holodomor, Crimea, and Nazism. Most of the topics repeat subjects already covered or fall outside the site’s mission. The article uses a conceptual frame: the tension between Russia and Ukraine as an “unfinished collapse of the empire” — the Russian Federation as an empire that did not complete its disintegration (the Russian Empire collapsed in the early 20th century, the USSR at the end of the 20th century, while today’s Russian Federation remained “incompletely collapsed”). This correlates with the same thesis from the Anatoliy Anatolich interview. A source for the article on the colonial character of relations between Russia and Ukraine.
Key moments
- 03:25 The Russia–Ukraine tension as the 'process of the empire's unfinished collapse': the Russian Federation is an empire that has not finished disintegrating
- 05:36 After the USSR, Russia ought to have rewritten its history 'not from Kyiv' but from its own Muscovite principality — but it never went through that rethinking